existence Quotes

It is only to the individual that a soul is given.

Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there cannot be someone to count there cannot be anything that can be counted, so that evidently there cannot be number; for number is either what has been, or what can be, counted.

We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one.

But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be time unless there is soul, but only that of which time is an attribute, i.e. if change can exist without soul.

The idea of personal salvation is intensely repugnant to me when it is not absurd. Imagine Roosevelt, the big brute, preserving his personality in a future state and swaggering about as a celestial Rough Rider!

We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence... on pain of liquidation.

Miracles, in the sense of phenomena we cannot explain, surround us on every hand: life itself is the miracle of miracles.

Those who do not know how to live must make a merit of dying.

If we don't know life, how can we know death?

I am just one human being.